The Marketing team promotes WordPress to current and future users and contributors. We create and amplify campaigns to support the growth of the WordPress project.
Our work is tracked on the Marketing Tasks Board on the WordPress organization’s GitHub. If you are planning a Marketing Table at a Contributor Event, please let us know in the Slack channel.
You can be part of the #marketing channel on Slack. Join our next Weekly Marketing Chat at: Tuesday 15:00 UTC.
Diary dates
Diary dates and forward planning as at w/c 24 August 2020. This will be updated after the meeting on 26 August.
The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 26 August 2020 at 14:00 UTC in the Global WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. #marketing channel.
If you are reading this agenda on another website and not the make.wordpress.org, please note that we may not be aware of any responses or offers to contribute you make on other sites.
If you are reading this from promotion in other Make Teams or are not yet active in the Marketing Team, there are details below of how you can involved.
This is where we also include highlights from what team members have been doing related to marketing in the WordPress community.
Update from co-ordinating team members: @nalininonstopnewsuk and @lmurillom
Get involved: Can you help amplify the social media promotions? Search #WPDiversity on the WordCamp on Twitter, WordCamp Facebook and Make WordPress Marketing Team on LinkedIn, and share the messages.
NOTE: more detailed collaboration will continue after the meeting at 15:15 UTC, 26 August 2020.
Update from co-ordinating team members: @webcommsat , @nullbyte , @OGlekler
Get involved: can you assist in this work? Contact @webcommsat and @oglekler
Get involved: additional marketing support needed to assist polyglots, reply in the Slack thread or initially contact @meher
Reminder of shared calendar and how to use it: from @oglekler
Updates on socials from: @meher and @nalininonstopnewsuk
You can also suggest to one of the team reps the day before the meeting if you have an idea for inclusion at a future meeting.
The meeting will be formally closed at the end of the collaborations session.
If you need accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) or language support to participate in any of our work and meetings, please let one of the team reps know in the marketing channel. We are keen to try and help and promote inclusion and diversity in the team.
Thursday 27 August 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break on video conferencing. If you need live captioning to participate, please let @webcommsat or @marks99 know and we will use an appropriate tool.
Monday 31 August 2020
– 19:15 UTC: Marketing Q&As and social media for WordPress 5.5.
Wednesday 2 September 2020, 14:00 UTC Global Marketing Team Meeting. Note, there will not be a collaboration session at 15:15 UTC on 2 September. It will be rescheduled to another day.
Thursday 3 September 2020, 19:30 UTC – Virtual Coffee Break, on video conferencing and Slack for those unable to join on video.
Poetry competition now open
Wednesday 26 August 2020, 17:00 UTC (NEW TIME) – fun social quiz for the team, organized by @majaloncar
Thursday 17 September 2020, 17:00 UTC – Around the World quiz organized by @meherand promoting different cultures and countries in the WordPress community. Followed by a short virtual coffee break.
